One big week Kaysville
A seven day city programme, almost all of it free, and no second festival anywhere on the calendar
The Fourth of July, and the week Kaysville builds around it.
Kaysville programmes seven days rather than one and calls it Freedom Week. The 2026 version ran 28 June to 4 July: a devotional, three tournaments, two films screened at once on the two ends of a field at Barnes Park, a five dollar breakfast at the technical college with a twenty five dollar family cap, a ten o'clock parade down the same three blocks the Tabernacle and the old stone city hall stand on, and fireworks at ten. Almost all of it is free, and the city runs nothing else this size all year.
Southern Utah is the ground I actually work, several hours south of Davis County, so these pages are researched rather than lived. What is on them was read where it is published: five National Register nomination files for Kaysville buildings, the city's own power presentation filed as a public notice document, the Davis County Clerk's canvassed 2020 election report, the county recorder's parcel layer and two independent boundary authorities, Utah State University's own posted rules for its botanical campus, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's failed bank record. Every figure carries the date it was checked. A Davis County partner agent takes the ground level work.
The live question
What is on which day of Freedom Week, and what does any of it actually cost?
Kaysville programmes seven days rather than one and calls the whole thing Freedom Week. The 2026 programme ran 28 June to 4 July and it has now run; this page records it because the shape repeats and the city publishes the next version in the spring. Checked at the city's own Fourth of July page on 15 August 2026. Take the 2027 dates and times from the city in May, not from this page and not from an events aggregator, because every line of it moves.
The cost answer is short and it is the useful one. Almost all of it is free. The single published price in the 2026 programme was the breakfast at Davis Technical College at five dollars a head with a twenty five dollar cap for a family of up to six. The tournaments carried registration, and the afternoon theatre performance was ticketed separately. The parade, the evening movies at the park, the music and the fireworks all cost nothing to attend. For a week long municipal programme in a city of thirty three thousand people that is an unusually clean answer.
The third thing worth knowing is what is not here. A full check of the city's community events index and calendar on 15 August 2026 found no second signature Kaysville festival: no founders day, no harvest festival, no arts festival. The county fair is in Farmington and the county's own events centre web address now redirects to a privately branded site under a different name. Kaysville is a one big week city, and saying so is more useful than padding a calendar with things that are really somebody else's.
Freedom Week, in numbers
7 days
of programme, from 28 June to 4 July in 2026
$5
a head for the breakfast, capped at $25 a family of six
10am
the parade start, down Main Street
10pm
the fireworks, over Barnes Park
The week
Six evenings of tournaments and films, and then the day itself.
The city published the 2026 week day by day and the pattern is worth understanding because it is what a small city does when it decides to run one thing properly. The Sunday, 28 June, opened with a patriotic devotional at seven in the evening in the Davis High auditorium. Monday 29 June was a pickleball tournament. Tuesday 30 June was a three on three basketball tournament the city called the Freedom Hoopfest. Wednesday 1 July was a volleyball tournament. Thursday 2 July was left as coming soon on the city's own page and stayed that way.
Friday 3 July is the one to look at, because it is the underrated evening. The city ran movies in the park at Barnes Park with food trucks arriving at seven, and then screened two different films at once at the two ends of Liston Field, both starting at dusk. That is a genuinely practical piece of programming for a household with children of different ages, and it is the kind of detail that never makes it into a listing.
Then the fourth. Breakfast at Davis Technical College from half past six until quarter to ten, five dollars a head and twenty five dollars for a family of up to six. A Rotary five kilometre and ten kilometre fun run at half past seven, though a second listing gave quarter past and the city's own page said half past, which is the one to use. The parade down Main Street at ten, under the 2026 theme RED WHITE AND BLUE THROUGH AND THROUGH. A Hopebox Theatre performance of the Wizard of Oz in the afternoon, ticketed. Music and food trucks at five. Fireworks over Barnes Park at ten.
The city also titled the 2026 programme as a 250 celebration in one of its own alerts, pointing at the United States semiquincentennial, though the 250 branding did not appear in the schedule itself. That is worth knowing if you are looking at the 2026 material for comparison, because 2026 was a year in which a lot of American towns programmed something extra and the extra part is not necessarily repeated.
The details
Getting there
Barnes Park is at 950 West 200 North, reached by taking 200 North west from Main Street, which is the same street as both of the city's freeway interchanges. The parade runs on Main Street through the middle of town, so plan on Main being closed for the morning and on the parking either side of it being taken well before ten. Davis Technical College sits at 550 East 300 South on the other side of town from the park, so the breakfast and the fireworks are at opposite corners of the city with the parade in between.
Before you go
- Every time, price and theme above is from the 2026 programme. Read the 2027 version at the city in May and do not carry a single one of these figures forward without checking it.
- The run start time was published two ways in 2026. The city's own page said half past seven and that is the one to trust.
- Barnes Park has no rubbish bins. The city's own facility page says so and asks visitors to use the dumpsters in the car park instead.
- If you want a pavilion at the park for a summer gathering, book in the spring: the reservation season runs 15 April to 15 October with a seventy two hour minimum notice.
The park it happens in
Five pavilions, eleven pickleball courts and an entrance on a completely different street.
Barnes Park at 950 West 200 North is Kaysville's flagship park and the site of both the evening programme and the fireworks. The city publishes a useful amount about it and leaves out two things a visitor would want, which is exactly why the table below has blanks in it.
| What you want to know | What the city publishes | What it does not publish | The practical answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it is | 950 West 200 North, about 1.1 miles north west of City Hall | Nothing missing | Take 200 North west from Main Street; it is the same street as both freeway interchanges |
| The pickleball courts | Eleven numbered courts, on the west side of the park, with courts 1 and 2 reservable between 15 April and 15 October | How obvious the separate entrance is | Enter from 315 North Flint Street rather than the main address. People drive to 950 West 200 North and cannot find the courts |
| Pavilions | Two large and many small pavilions, with five reservable and numbered 1 to 5 | Capacities for each | Book through the city's own reservation system, Monday to Saturday only, no holidays, at least 72 hours ahead |
| What else is there | Two playgrounds, restrooms, sand volleyball courts, softball fields, three multi use fields, a basketball court, barbecue grills, an arboretum tag and accessible facilities | Nothing significant | It is a full sized municipal park and it carries the whole of the city's summer evening programme |
| Rubbish | That garbage cans are not available and visitors should use the dumpsters in the car park | Nothing missing, and almost nobody carries this | Bring a bag and plan to walk your rubbish back to the car park |
| How big it is | Nothing. The city publishes no acreage for any park except the one on the bench | The acreage | A third party directory gives about 46.3 acres. No issuer confirms it, so this page does not print it as fact |
| Opening hours | Nothing citywide is published | The hours | Assume daylight use and ask the parks office on 801-544-1788 if it matters for an evening plan |
Every filled cell is from kaysville.gov's parks, facilities, pickleball and reservation pages, checked in August 2026. Two things the city genuinely does not publish are marked as such rather than filled from a directory, which is the honest treatment: a park acreage and a citywide park hours rule. The reservation window and the 72 hour notice re-check every March, and the park is separately the site of the city's Fourth of July evening programme and fireworks.
The other summer thing, and its hours are the useful part
The splash pad is at Heritage Park, 250 North Fairfield Road, not at Barnes Park, and its hours are the piece of information that actually helps. The city publishes it as open from the Tuesday after Memorial Day and running noon to six, Tuesday through Saturday. Read that twice: it is shut on Sundays and Mondays and it runs six hours a day. Nothing in the aggregators carries either half of that, and a household turning up on a Monday morning in July finds a dry pad and no explanation.
Heritage Park is worth the trip for more than the water. The city lists a pavilion, picnic shelters, a playground, restrooms, a walking path it gives as 0.30 mile, a grill, water, parking and accessible facilities, and notes that the path is lined with trees donated by Kaysville residents and businesses. The park also holds what the city calls the Water Mill and the Pioneer House. It is a small park doing several jobs.
The third thing the city runs in summer, and the one nobody knows about, costs nothing at all. Kaysville maintains two permanent orienteering courses, one at East Mountain Wilderness Park on the bench and one at Angel Street Soccer Complex on the south side of town, where the city says the site carries over four hundred trees of a hundred different varieties in its arboretum. Two permanent municipal orienteering courses in one city of this size is genuinely unusual, and both are free and need no booking.
One week, honestly
The city does not run a second festival, and that is a more useful thing to know than a padded list.
A relocation page is under permanent pressure to make a calendar look full, and the easiest way to do it is to borrow: the county fair from Farmington, a resort's summer season from the town next door, a canyon's autumn from somebody else's bench. This page does not, because the borrowing is exactly what makes those lists useless. A full read of the city's community events index and calendar on 15 August 2026 found one large annual programme in Kaysville and no second one.
What that means in practice is that the year here has one peak and a lot of ordinary weeks, and the ordinary weeks run on municipal facilities rather than on events. The splash pad six hours a day from late May. The reservation season from the middle of April to the middle of October. The two orienteering courses. A bench park with tent sites and the only park gate in town a dog may walk through. The university's gardens and ponds on the other side of the city, free and open every day. That is the actual shape of a Kaysville summer and it is not a bad one.
It also means the neighbours matter more than they would in a town with its own crowded calendar. The resort with the water park and the campground at the south end of Main Street is a Kaysville postal address on Fruit Heights ground, and it is Fruit Heights's to describe rather than Kaysville's. The county's paid attractions, the amusement park south in Farmington and the aquatic centre north in Clearfield, are all a short drive and all of them are priced and seasoned in one place on the county family weekends page rather than argued town by town.
One further piece of the day is worth a line because of where it happens. The breakfast is at Davis Technical College, which is a state institution inside the city limits, and the same college turns up in the power department's own project list as a rebuild on Main. An institution that both feeds the town on the fourth of July and shows up in the municipal utility's capital plan is woven into a place rather than merely sited in it.
Every date, time and price on this page is from the 2026 programme, which has already run, and the city republishes the whole thing each spring. The seven day shape, the tournament order, the two film screening on the third, the breakfast price and its family cap, the run start, the parade time and theme and the ten o'clock fireworks are all the 2026 programme as the city published it, checked in August 2026. None of it is a 2027 commitment. Kaysville puts the next year's programme on its own Fourth of July page in the spring, and the sensible time to check is May. Two further things move on their own timetables: the pavilion and court reservation window, which the city republishes each March, and the splash pad opening date, which follows Memorial Day and shifts every year. Take all three from the city rather than from an events aggregator, several of which were still carrying stale Davis County event information when this page was written.
Living with it
One closed street for a morning, and the parking gone well before ten.
For a household living on or near Main Street the practical version of all this is a single morning. The parade runs through the middle of town at ten, which means Main is closed for the morning and the streets either side of it fill early. If you live within a couple of blocks you will not need to drive anywhere, and if you need to be somewhere else, leave before nine or plan a route that stays west of the freeway. This is one morning a year and it is the price of living on the street the town actually uses.
The evening half is at the other end of town. Barnes Park at 950 West 200 North takes the movies on the third, the music at five on the fourth and the fireworks at ten, which puts a large number of cars on 200 North, the same street as both freeway interchanges. If you are choosing between a house near the park and one near the parade route, they are two quite different Fourth of July experiences and both are short.
Fireworks generally are a live question in every Utah city and this page does not print a rule for Kaysville, because no current city restriction has been verified. Utah cities and counties issue and lift personal fireworks restrictions on their own timing and by their own conditions, and the answer in one summer is not the answer in the next. Read the city's own notices in the week that matters. The city's public display at Barnes Park is a separate thing from any restriction on personal use.
The rest of a Kaysville year is quieter and is mostly a question of which facility is open when. The splash pad hours, the reservation window and the bench park's camping rules are all above or on the bench park page, and what an address here asks of a household across the whole year is on the mover page.
The county's version
Family weekends in Davis County
Everything paid and free across the county, priced and seasoned in one place, including the resort at the south end of Kaysville's Main Street.
Read the guideThe other summer
East Mountain Wilderness Park
Tent sites, an orienteering course and 140 acres of trail on the bench, which is where a Kaysville summer goes when it is not July.
Read the guideThe free one
The Utah Botanical Center
Gardens, an arboretum and stocked ponds on the south west side, open sunrise to sunset every day of the year at no charge.
Read the guideThe parade route
The man who built Kaysville
What is standing on the three blocks the parade runs down, and the self taught architect who put most of it there.
Read the guideThe practical side
The Kaysville city guide
What an address near the park or the parade route runs to, and the market half of the question.
Open the guideThe wider county
Davis County on The Local
The other fourteen towns on this bench, each with its own companion, and seven subjects they share.
The region hubKeep reading
More of Kaysville on The Local.
The wires
City power since 1908
A franchise in March 1908, the whole system bought in June for $1,850.
Read the guideThe bench park
East Mountain Wilderness Park
One hundred and forty acres, tent sites you walk into, and the one gate a dog may use.
Read the guideThe empty one
The Rock Building
A mayor of twenty five, New Deal money, and a stone building empty since 2015.
Read the guideThe university's
The Utah Botanical Center
A university campus with stocked ponds, free every day, reached from the wrong exit.
Read the guideBy correspondence
The man who built Kaysville
He learned architecture by post and built four of the six listed places in town.
Read the guideMoving here
Moving to Kaysville
The postmark says one city and the parcel can say another. Read the parcel.
Read the guideThe companion
Kaysville, in full
Wires from 1908, a bench park, a New Deal building, a university campus and one week.
Read the pageQuick answers
Freedom Week, answered.
The city's own name for the seven day programme it runs around the Fourth of July. The 2026 version ran 28 June to 4 July and was published day by day on the city's website: a patriotic devotional in the Davis High auditorium on 28 June at 7pm, a pickleball tournament on 29 June, a three on three basketball tournament on 30 June, a volleyball tournament on 1 July, an unannounced item on 2 July, films and food trucks at Barnes Park on 3 July, and the full programme on the fourth itself. That schedule has now run. The 2027 version goes up at the city in the spring.
In the 2026 programme the parade started at 10am and ran down Main Street, under the theme RED WHITE AND BLUE THROUGH AND THROUGH. The rest of the day ran from a breakfast at Davis Technical College between 6:30am and 9:45am, a Rotary five and ten kilometre fun run at 7:30am, a ticketed theatre performance in the afternoon, music and food trucks at 5pm, and fireworks over Barnes Park at 10pm. All of those are 2026 times. Take the current year's schedule from kaysville.gov in May rather than from this page or from an events aggregator.
Almost nothing. The only published price in the 2026 programme was the breakfast at Davis Technical College at five dollars a head, capped at twenty five dollars for a family of up to six. The tournaments earlier in the week carried registration fees and the afternoon theatre performance was ticketed separately. The parade, the evening films at Barnes Park, the music and food trucks and the fireworks were all free to attend. Prices move every year and should be taken from the city's own page in the spring.
No. A full check of the city's community events index and calendar on 15 August 2026 found no second signature Kaysville event: no founders day, no harvest festival and no arts festival. The county fair is in Farmington rather than Kaysville, and the county's own events centre web address now redirects to a privately branded site under a different name. Kaysville runs one week properly and does not manufacture a second, which is a more useful thing to know than a padded calendar borrowed from the neighbouring towns.
At 950 West 200 North, about 1.1 miles north west of City Hall, reached by taking 200 North west from Main Street. It is the city's flagship park and it carries the Fourth of July evening programme and the fireworks. The city lists two large and many small pavilions with five reservable, two playgrounds, restrooms, sand volleyball courts, softball fields, three multi use fields, a basketball court and barbecue grills. It publishes no acreage. The pickleball courts are on the west side and are reached from a separate entrance at 315 North Flint Street.
Through the city's own reservation system, and the window is narrower than most people expect. Reservations run 15 April to 15 October, Monday through Saturday, with no reservations on holidays, and they must be made at least 72 hours in advance. Five numbered pavilions at Barnes Park are reservable, and pickleball courts 1 and 2 are reservable within the same window. If you want a pavilion for a summer gathering, treat it as a spring job rather than a June one. The parks and recreation office is on 801-544-1788 and the window republishes each March.
It is at Heritage Park, 250 North Fairfield Road, and the city publishes it as opening the Tuesday after Memorial Day and running noon to six, Tuesday through Saturday. That means it is closed on Sundays and Mondays and open for six hours a day, neither of which appears on any aggregator. The opening date shifts every year with Memorial Day, so read it at the city in May. Heritage Park also carries a pavilion, picnic shelters, a playground, restrooms, a 0.30 mile walking path lined with donated trees, and what the city calls the Water Mill and the Pioneer House.
No, and the city says so on the park's own facility page: garbage cans are not available, and visitors are asked to place trash in the dumpsters located in the car park. It is a small thing and it is exactly the sort of detail that no listing carries and that changes how you pack for an afternoon there. Bring a bag, plan to carry your rubbish back to the car park, and expect the same on the evenings of the Fourth of July programme when the park is at its busiest.
This page does not print a rule, because no current Kaysville restriction was verified when it was written on 15 August 2026. Utah cities and counties issue and lift personal fireworks restrictions on their own timing and by their own conditions, and one summer's answer is not the next summer's. Read the city's own notices in the week that matters rather than assuming last year's position still holds. Separately, the city's public display at Barnes Park at 10pm on the fourth is a municipal event and is not affected by any restriction on personal use.
One week a year on three blocks that are worth walking the other fifty one.
Kaysville puts everything into one week and then runs on facilities for the rest of the year, which makes the ordinary questions the useful ones: which park is walkable from a street, whether the splash pad hours work for a household, how far a parcel is from a parade route that closes Main Street for a morning, and which of the city's two free outdoor destinations is the one you would actually use. Tell me what a year here would need to look like and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who works these streets, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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